AP Psychology Sensation and Perception Part 2

Coiled,bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear; sound waves through here trigger neural impulses

Sense of body movement and position that enables our sense of balance

Theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated

Sense or act of hearing

Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea

Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected

Contains the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibular sacs

Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

Depth cue, such as interposition or linear perspective available to either eye alone

Ability to adjust to changed sensory input; including an artificially displaced or inverted visual field

Device for converting sounds into electrical signals, threaded into the cochlea

Perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

The sense of smell

Sense of movement; our system for sensing the position and movement of individual body arts

Number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time (ex. per second)

Depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of two eyes

An organized whole; emphasizes our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

Illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.

Chamber between the eardrum and cochlea containing three tiny bones (hammer, anvil, stirrup)

A tone's experienced highness or lowness, depends on frequency

The brain compares retinal images from the two eyes; greater disparity = closer objects

Organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings

Influence of bodily sensations, gestures, and other states on cognitive preferences and judgments

Theory that the spinal cord contains a "gate" that blocks pain signals or sends them to the brain

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Principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste

Ability to see objects in 3 dimensions although the images we see are 2 dimensional; allows us to judge distance

Hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea's receptor cells or auditory nerves